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SMASH ensemble

“The destructive character sees nothing permanent. But for this very reason he sees ways everywhere. Where others encounter walls or mountains, there too, he sees a way...”

Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)

Considered as one of Europe’s finest formations, SMASH ensemble is a “cluster” comprising top musicians for all over the world specialized in contemporary music. The artistic direction has developed it’s repertoire and creations towards hibridations with diferent trends such as poetry, bunraku puppets, electronic music, philosophy, and a series of diverse pedagogical projects.

In 2011 were born two projects that display the enthousiasm to integrate different artistic trends in classical contemporary music: Pierrot Lunaire/Bunraku, a staging of Arnold Schönberg’s music and japanese Bunraku puppets; Lengu’entrebescada a poetry and music cycle produced in collaboration with the University of Salamanca which is inspired by the troubadours of the twelfth century,

SMASH ensemble and the Festival Internacional SMASH de Música contemporánea, make part of the devices of the Asociación SMASH (Salamanca, Spain), which aims to promote and foment classical contemporary music.

« So nobly were they taught, that there was neither he nor she amongst them but could read, write, sing, play upon several musical instruments, speak five or six languages, and compose in them all very quaintly, both in verse and prose... »